What Causes Depression?

Unfortunately, depression has been classified as a mental illness and this actually exacerbates the problem. Because of this erroneous label, many people are embarrassed or ashamed to admit that they suffer from depression, and they may even hide their symptoms.

It may be the 21st century, and it may be the age of information, and it may be the age of awareness, but for those who have been classified as having a brain that is mentally ill, it is like living in a time warp, i.e., back in the Dark Ages.

The label “mental illness” can cause you to feel inadequate, damaged, and isolated. And these feelings can cause you to interact differently with family and friends. Probably many of you reading this article hide your condition from associates and new acquaintances. This is a natural human tendency, and totally understandable, but it causes you to either consciously or subconsciously feel inauthentic.

The by-product of this behavior is that you feel unworthy of the best that life has to offer you. This then creates a physiological pattern of feeling unloved, or unaccepted, and/or misunderstood. When this happens, your depression then starts to become more apparent.

Depression, by nature, is the brain screaming at you to change – your thinking, thoughts, behavior, emotions, attitudes and/or environment.

If your brain has succumbed to the stresses of the 21st century, and is in complete overload from mental, emotional and physiological exhaustion, it naturally reaches a point where it defaults into a safe mode of functioning. This safe mode is called depression.

Biologically, your brain has to cope with all of your needs every moment of your life. When your brain is unable to deal with your needs and the lifestyle you have constructed, it becomes erratic in its behavior. This erratic behavior comes in the form of thoughts.

When you have a brain that is relentless in its thought patterns, this indicates that your brain is at the first stage of exhaustion and in the process of becoming depressed.

Your brain can communicate to you only via thoughts.

This process is designed so that your brain can always give you guidance and support and safety. This bio-feedback mechanism is programmed in your DNA and it affects your emotional, psychological, thinking and feeling behavior.

In its pure sense, this process is highly effective; however, the 21st century brain chooses negativity as a method of biological survival when under extreme stress.

Once your brain allows negativity into its thoughts patterns, it then changes its nature. This can cause you to be more reactive, insecure, moody, nervous, pessimistic, unsociable, and/or unpredictable.

This is the second stage of exhaustion and it is when the signs of depression start to manifest.

Feeling flat is the first sign that your brain is putting you into safe mode. Many people think this feeling is due to too much physical exertion. However, feeling flat or losing your spark is a vital indicator that your brain has put you into safe mode in preparation for the possibility of your brain not being able to cope with the constant bombardment of stress.

Stress to your brain is like water to a petrol tank. Once your brain has been infected by stress, the biological response is an indicator that the mechanics of your body’s engine, your heart, is strained and under biological overwhelm.

Your heart is your brain’s second sounding board in regards to your health.
Your heart has neurons similar to the neurons in your brain. These cells communicate to each other via an invisible messaging system similar to a mobile SMS or TEXT.

Your heart is the CEO of your organs and cells. And like any CEO that controls a major corporation, your heart is communicating to your brain, cells and organs simultaneously, reporting the status of the biological nature of your body. This amazing system of biological mechanics enables the brain to send the correct amount of chemical nutrients, called “peptides”, to your cells for your emotional and physical wellbeing.

When your brain gets flooded with stress hormones from your adrenal glands, your brain’s first response is to identify what part of your body is under biological threat. Your brain then communicates to your heart that it is receiving information from the adrenal glands, and that there is a nervous system response indicating you are under threat for survival.

Your heart at this stage hasn’t received a warning from the nervous system to flee from the threat, so your heart sends back information that all is safe and that the adrenal glands are not communicating correctly..

Once your brain has interpreted this information, it then instructs your subconscious to correct the communication between the adrenal glands and the brain.

This change stops the adrenal glands from expressing vital information to your heart from a specific hormone called “steroids”. These steroid hormones normally make you feel alive, healthy, secure, competent, and valued.

When your brain has requested your subconscious to change the way your adrenal glands express this information to your heart, you feel flat and you lose your personal vitality. Other symptoms can include: your enthusiasm for life wains, you lose interest in an active social life, you lose enjoyment in your work, your relationships with your partner becomes more strained, and your sexual nature starts to lose its magic.

This should be your alarm bell that the brain has just changed the biological nature of who you are, robbing you of your zest for life.

Once you have lost your zest for life, your brain automatically communicates this to the subconscious. Your subconscious then engages your heart to express feelings that help your brain understand that you have more to gain from being suppressed than from all of life’s riches and rewards.

These feelings start out as loneliness and longing for friendship. Your brain then starts to suppress these feelings by creating specific communication patterns that instruct your neural pathways (the engine to all of your behaviour) to change the way the body experiences these feelings, because your brain cannot cope with the feelings of loneliness and isolation.

Your brain then constructs a biological response, sending chemical nutrients to the cells that tell them to feel sad. The sadness blocks the brain from feeling lonely.

When you feel sad, your heart naturally needs peace and quiet to heal the body and brain from life’s hardships and despairs.

This occurs when your brain has developed the biological condition called depression. Once your brain has constructed the mechanics of depression, your heart then has to change all of its values to support the brain’s will. These values then change the way you interact with life.

Your heart changes the way you move, communicate, respond, act and feel. This change will typically cause you to become more emotional, to feel tired, to gain excessive weight (in many cases), and to feel unattractive, insignificant, despondent, and unsupported.

Once you have developed all or most of these characteristics, you are technically suffering from depression.

Although depression is labelled a mental illness, the mechanics of depression start from the neck down, which is why traditional therapies often fail to heal you. You can heal your depression naturally if you have the resources to change your environment, quit work, hire a nanny for the children, have domestic help to cook and clean, have a handy man on tap to do the odd jobs and gardening, have a support group around you to help build up your self-worth, and have massages every day to heal your nervous system and brain.

However, if your budget doesn’t allow for healing of that nature, the most effective way to heal your depression is by simply calling our Free call Australia 1300 884 348 to book one of the appropriate healing programs. And within 2 hours you will be on your way to changing the way your brain copes with the stresses of your life.

Within days you will feel more vitality and a renewed interest in life!